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> Scheme looks like Lisp but isn't really Lisp The Lisp world is extremely confusing. I'd wager that at this time, most people in that space can't even agree
by ur-whale 3y ago
> Scheme looks like Lisp but isn't really Lisp
The Lisp world is extremely confusing.
I'd wager that at this time, most people in that space can't even agree on what "being a LISP" means.
- mtreis86 3y agoHaven't agreed in half a century, won't agree now, never will.
- harperlee 3y agoJavascript is lisp but clojure ain’t so!
- kazinator 3y agoI've never seen anyone say that MacCarthy's Lisp 1 and 1.5 are not Lisp. Or that MacLisp, or InterlLisp, BBN Lisp and other historic dialects are not Lisp. Or that Emacs Lisp or ANSI Common Lisp aren't. The entire disagreement is about languages that deviate from the core design patterns set out in the ancestral Lisps, some of whose adherents want them to be regarded as Lisp.